IDENTIFIERS
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id:	73304
accession number:	C.227-1991

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 18 December 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse speckled. Painted in blue, greyish-green, yellow, orange, and black.
Circular with narrow, slightly sloping rim and shallow well; recessed base.
Two shields of arms side by side are surrounded by grotesques: masks, monsters, a basket of fruit, two flaming urns, and demi-human figures. The shield on the left is charged with the arms or, on a bend sinister azure three roses of the first, with above a close helmet facing to sinister with, as a crest a demi-maiden vested azure, arms extended, grasping in each hand by the stalk a flower of the arms; the shield on the right is charged with the arms per pale or and sable, a man erased countercharged, wearing an ancient crown and holding a sceptre in his right hand, above is a helmet for the Kolbenturnier, with as a crest the man as in the arms. On the edge there is a narrow orange band and orange petals over a yellow band. The back is decorated with concentric yellow bands: two round the foot, one at the shoulder, and one by the rim.
object type: Renaissance maiolica plate, painted in polychrome with two shields of arms side by side, surrounded by grotesques.
title:	plate

NOTES
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type: history note
value: John Postle Heseltine; Sotheby's, 24 May 1935, Catalogue of valuable bronzes and statuary . . . Italian majolica etc., the property of the late J.P. Heseltine Esq., of 91 Eaton Square S.W., second part of lot 90; H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	H.S. Reitlinger
creditline: H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/73304


SUBJECTS
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shield
coat-of-arms
shield
coat-of-arms



TECHNIQUES
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Earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse speckled. Painted in blue, greyish-green, yellow, orange, and black.
moulding
TECHNIQUES
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tin-glazing

CATEGORIES
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category: tin-glazed earthenware
category: maiolica

DATING
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creation date:	1593 - 1598
creation date earliest:	1593
creation date latest:	1598
culture:	16th Century
culture:	Renaissance

CREATORS
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maker: Patanazzi family

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 22.6

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 2.8



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	The Fine Art and Antiques Fair
title:	Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum
CITATIONS
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Catalogue of valuable bronzes and statuary . . . Italian majolica etc., the property of the late J.P. Heseltine Esq., of 91 Eaton Square S.W.
Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
Wallace Collection Catalogue of Ceramics 1, Pottery, Maiolica, Faience, Stoneware
Italienische Majoliken mit Wappen Augsburger Familien (1515-1605)
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